Environment history

  • Love Canal

    when they planted the seeds and the canal turned into a chemical dumpsite
  • Minamata disaster

    Methylmercury called the (MeHg) poisoning occurring that humans will ingest fish and shellfish
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring published

    silent spring is the result of partnership with several years of researching of the east coast
  • Cuyahoga River Fire

    Oil slick on the Cuyahoga river polluted from decades of industrial waste caught on fire on a Sunday morning in June in downtown Cleveland, Ohio
  • Stockholm Conference

    the first world conference to make the environment a major issue
  • Endangered species act

    provided frameworks that will consume and protect the threatened and endangered
  • The Castillo de Bellver Oil Spill

    50-60,000 tons are estimated to have spilled into the sea or burned
  • Bhopal disaster

    over 40 tons of methyl gas leaked from the pesticide plant in many different countries
  • Chernobyl Meltdown

    the explosion of No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant